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adjective

Tangible adj.

Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.

Capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the mind; real; substantial; evident. "A tangible blunder." "Direct and tangible benefit to ourselves and others."

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Etymology of 'Tangible'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tangible" Quotes from Famous Books

... coachman was driving very badly," I think she travelled in stately silence as far as Kew. Not so the other occupants of the barouche. Maud, desirous of forgetting much that was distasteful to her in the events of the morning, and indeed, in the course of her daily life, resolved to accept the tangible advantages of the present, nor scrupled to show that she enjoyed fresh air, fine weather, and pleasant company. Dick, stimulated by her presence, and never disinclined to gaiety of spirit, exerted himself to be agreeable, ...

— M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." • G.J. Whyte-Melville

... get into clear and tangible form my shadowy ideas. What is the secret of ministerial success? What is the common characteristic which gives pulpit power to such widely dissimilar characters as Chalmers, Whitefields, the Westleys, Spurgeon and Robertson in England, and ...

— Laicus - The experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish • Lyman Abbott

... last was something tangible—and promising. Mr. Pulcifer's puffy lids drew nearer together to hide the gleam behind them. He took the cigar from his mouth and held it between the fingers of his right hand. During his next ...

— Galusha the Magnificent • Joseph C. Lincoln

... a supersensible and real cosmic medium exists, which interpenetrates, influences, and supports the tangible and apparent world, and is amenable to the categories both of meta-physics and of physics." [This of course is the astral plane, which is the container of the subtle form or framework of all that exists on the ...

— Clairvoyance and Occult Powers • Swami Panchadasi

... the sky by the line of white smoke puffs left by our bursting archy shells. Archy seldom reckons to get a direct hit on a plane, but, by the expenditure of quantities of ammunition, he makes the Hun fly too high to see anything of value or to drop bombs with much hope of success. More tangible results were obtained by our fighting planes, which engaged the Hun in the air. A pretty little fight took place a thousand feet or so above our heads, between two of our planes and a couple of Huns. After preliminary circling ...

— With the British Army in The Holy Land • Henry Osmond Lock

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